Uh, no, they’re enabling the way of life I want to have

Apparently, back in January, a State Department official made a reference to the Avignon Papacy to the Vatican’s chief diplomat.

For those not familiar with the geopolitical history of Europe and the Catholic Church, this was a period in the 1300s where the French monarchy did their level best to basically co-opt and strong arm the church so they could squeeze money out of them, and led to a schism for a time.

Put another way: that is by far the most thinly-veiled direct threat I’ve ever heard anyone make to the Vatican in my life.

Yeah, OP do be like that

Lmao what the fuck kind of question is that? “Can you trust lying shitheels on <controversial_topic>” 🙄

Lmao ok sure buddy

I’d say they’re looking pretty fucking grand from where he’s standing, because he’s still in charge, and shitposting about insane things, and ordering the military to do whatever he feels like, and has a secret police force and concentration camps now, and is pretty obviously getting away with some very heinous and lurid crimes around sexual assault and pedophilia, and is not facing any meaningful consequences whatsoever for anything.

My grave disappointment and fury at Hillary for giving away the fucking game certainly is coming to a middle

I have been telling people for well over a decade that Christian dominionism will be the death of us all, and for the most part nobody listens. I’m so tired.

I saw some fucking idiot with these on at a show a few months ago and I had to exert a lot of control not to yank them off her face and stomp on them.

Nobody wants to be recorded secretly. Especially not at a show. That’s a gross invasion of privacy - and, in fact, illegal in some jurisdictions (two-party consent laws for recordings).

Yeah, I know, I live in Boston. The NE corridor subsidizes literally the entirety of the rest of the Amtrak network that isn’t profitable.

• that’s the line for these fucking imbeciles. Not concentration camps. Not secret police. Not summary executions. Not threatening to “erase a civilization”. A shitty, boomer-tier, imagegen fucking meme about an imaginary friend. Cool.
• the guy being healed looks like Epstein 😏

It was a good idea when I was in college and participated in the protests around that in the mid/late naughties; it’s still a good idea.

Amtrak actually looks pretty reasonable

Thou doth protest too much 😏

Bending spoons are a bunch of no-talent hyper capitalist private equity fuckwits whose core competence involves acquiring companies and cutting any novel, interesting, or long term projects that require any investment whatsoever to the bone, regardless of whether or not said cuts destroy long-term core competencies, and then extracting as much value as possible from the remains until it goes tits up. They are a plague of a company, and they’ve sucked the life out of more than a few companies that don’t deserve to have been parasitized like that.

This fluff article is comically obvious, disingenuous, and gross. They are a bad company, and they provide no real value to anyone except their shareholders. Which, I guess, makes them “successful” in this day and age.

Source: worked at a company they acquired. Left before the acquisition, but I had some good friends who were still there when it happened. They cut upwards of 90% of the staff, hollowed out the parts of the business that, while less profitable, was by far the most interesting and challenging technical domain and enabled novel R&D, and converted from primarily B2B to a direct-to-consumer subscription model that completely flopped.

Lol fantastic shitpost

Even better if it’s genuine

Why though

At one point in the book, the military aide carrying the “nuclear football” tries to stop the president getting his hands on it and is disciplined for his actions.

Asked what confidence he had that someone in the chain of command now would intervene to stop Trump, Lewis simply replied: “None.”

“He has consistently purged the military of anybody who he thinks would stand up to him or resist him,” he said.